BUCK. ... but this top-proud fellow (Whom from the flow of gall I _name not_, but From _sincere motions_) Dr. Johnson explains _sincere motions_ to be _honest indignation_; and, for _name not_, would substitute _blame not_. But is not the following the plain sense, without any alteration? "this top-proud fellow, whom I call so, not from an excess of bitterness, but from a genuine _impulse_ of the mind." SCENE 1. Page 26. BUCK. I am the shadow of poor Buckingham, Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on, By dark'ning my clear sun. It is no easy matter on some occasions to comprehend the precise meaning of Shakspeare's metaphors, which are often careless and confused; and of this position the present lines are, doubtless, an example. We have here a double comparison. Buckingham is first made to say that he is but a shadow; in other terms, a dead man. He then adverts to the _sudden_ cloud of misfortune that overwhelms him, and, like a shadow, obscures his prosperity. SCENE 3. Page 42. CHAM. Is it possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange _mysteries_? Dr. Johnson's explanation is much too fanciful. Mysteries are _arts_, and here _artificial fashions_. ACT II. SCENE 2. Page 71. NOR. I'll venture one _heave_ at him. The first folio reads "I'll venture one; _have_ at him," and this, except as to the punctuation, is right. _Have at you_ was a common phrase; it is used by Surrey in the ensuing act, and afterwards by Cromwell. SCENE 2. Page 73. CAM. ... which so griev'd him, [Doctor Pace] That he ran mad and died. This is from Holinshed. "Aboute this time the king received into favor doctor Stephen Gardiner, whose service he used in matters of great secrecie and weighte, admitting him in the room of Doctor Pace, the which being continually abrode in ambassades, and the same oftentymes not much necessarie, by the Cardinalles appointment, at length he toke such greefe therwith, that he fell out of his right wittes." SCENE 3. Page 75. ANNE. ... 'tis a sufferance panging As soul and body's severing. Of the parallel passages already cited, this is not the least so, from _Measure for measure_; "... in _corporal sufferance_ feels a _pang_ as great As when a giant dies." SCENE 4. Page 98. [_they rise to depart._ Mr. Ridley's note is very judiciously introduced to get rid of the interpolated stage direction inserted by some of the editors, and to account for the king's apostrophe to Cranmer. He might have adduced an earlier exemplification of his remark from the ensuing scene, where Norfolk asks, _when Cranmer returns_? The archbishop of Canterbury, who attends the procession to Blackfriars, was William Warham. ACT III. SCENE 2. Page 112.